Deacon
Micajah
"Mycajah, Micahjah"
Torrey
Sr
Born in Weymouth, Massachusetts Bay Colony
Ancestors 
Son of William Torrey
and Elizabeth (Frye) Torrey
Brother of
Samuel Torrey [half], William Torrey [half], Naomi (Torrey) Lowell, Mary (Torrey) Downs, Josiah Torrey, Judith (Torrey) Hunt and Angel Torrey
Husband of
Susannah (Unknown) Torrey
— married
1673 in Weymouth, Suffolk, Massachusetts Bay Colony
Descendants 
Died
at age 66
in Weymouth, Suffolk, Province of Massachusetts Bay
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Biography
This profile is part of the Torrey Name Study.
Micajah Torrey Sr. was Elizabeth Fry's oldest son, and her first born in Massachusetts. His occupation was a Husbandman who actually raised crops. He became a FREEMAN, in1672
Family
Micajah Sr. married Susannah and together they had the following children: [1]
- 1) Micajah
- 2) Margaret
- 3) Mary b. 22 Mar 1681 d. 8 Aug 1716
- 4) Silence
- 5) Joshua b. abt 1686 d. 8 Apr 1752
- 6) Susannah b. 29 Oct 1687 d. 30 Apr 17 (unmarried)
- 7) Samuel
Burial and Property
FROM TOMBSTONE OF DEACON MICAJAH TORREY, SR.
- Here lies Ye
- Body of Deacon
- Micajah Torrey
- Aged About 66-7
- Years Died
- January Ye 20
- 1710
Research Notes
- 1) "MICAJAH, Weymouth, s. of the first William of the same, freem. 1672, by w. Susanna had Micajah, b. 27 July 1673; Mary, 22 Mar. 1681; Susanna, wh. d. 29 Oct. 1687; Samuel, 15 Jan. 1688; and perhaps others, not found on imperf. rec." --James Savage
- 2) NOTABLE RELATIONS
- Deacon Micajah Torrey is a distant relation of President Wiliam H. Taft, Gov. Bob Taft of Ohio, Sen. John Kerry, Presidential Advisors William P. Bundy and McGeorge Bundy, Civil War hero Col. Charles Russell Lowell, poets James Russell Lowell, Robert Lowell, Amy Lowell, and Edgar Lee Masters, Sophia Peabody (Mrs. Nathaniel Hawthorne), publishers G. P. Putnam and Sons, writers Louisa May Alcott and Horatio Alger Jr., editor Horace Greeley, writer Horation Alger Jr., Jerome Napoleon Bonaparte Jr., genealogist Clarence Almon Torrey, abolitionist Charles Turner Torrey, Fannie Farmer, and The Beach Boys (Brian Wilson & Co.).
Sources
- Richardson, Douglas. Royal Ancestry (2013) Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 5 vols., ed. Kimball G. Everingham, (Salt Lake City, Utah: the author, 2013), Vol III, page 269, Elizabeth Frye.
- Stott, Clifford L., Humphrey Blake (1494?–1558) and His Descendants in New England and South Carolina: Blake, Richards, Selleck, Torrey, and Wolcott, The New England Historical & Genealogical Register (NEHGS, Boston, Mass., 2010) Vol. 164, WN 653, Page 66.
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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships. Paternal line Y-chromosome DNA test-takers:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships. Paternal line Y-chromosome DNA test-takers:
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Family Tree DNA Y-DNA Test 111 markers, haplogroup R-M269, FTDNA kit #B735085, MitoYDNA ID T18135 [compare] - Robert Torrey :
Family Tree DNA Y-DNA Test 12 markers, haplogroup R-M269, FTDNA kit #N55360
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Re: The One Name Study posted on this branch of the Torrey line, I have revised to be a Project and is no longer relevant for this platform. Please remove the tag from this profile. Hopefully it will be a stronger resource in the near future for the Torreys when if you like, you can send me notice and I can provide the link which you can use if you see fit. I and my tree is actively involved in Geni which is partnered with Family Tree DNA whose systems are different but perhaps clearer for my purposes? Thank you for your assistance.
Well, okay. Do what you will with it. But it needs a lot of help. If you're keeping it here, join it and revise it I guess. I could just go in and delete the body -- I'd prefer to delete it if its going to be derelict under the present condition. Do you want to make it into something useful? Otherwise, get rid of it. Wiki deserves better.
edited by Amanda (Moyer) Torrey
edited by Amanda (Moyer) Torrey
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